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List of Fonds: MI-C-I-223



  • MI-C-I-223

  • Title
    Art historian Katalin Telepy’s bequest
  • Quantity / Provenance / Document types, inclusive dates
    1 box / Gift, 2013 / Manuscripts, documents, books, offprints, journals
  • Description
    Katalin Telepy (Mrs. István Sterbetz, 1914–2007) was a collateral descendant of Hungarian painter Károly Telepy (1828–1906). She majored in Art history, Archaeology and Museology at Eötvös Loránd University, where her teachers included Tibor Gerevich, Lajos Vayer, Anna Zádor, Gyula László and Ervin Ybl. An associate of the National Centre for Museums and Memorials (1951–1952), then of the New Hungarian Picture Gallery of the Museum of Fine Arts (1952–1957). A founding member and senior associate of the Hungarian National Gallery. Organised numerous exhibitions in the Hungarian National Gallery, as well as in countryside museums and galleries. Author of several books and monographs (Tájképek a Magyar Nemzeti Galériában / Landscapes of the Hungarian National Gallery, Iványi Grünwald Béla, Telepy Károly, etc.). Her area of research was Hungarian and European painting in the 19th-20th centuries. The fonds contains Katalin Telepy’s works (offprints, journal articles, catalogues of exhibitions she had organised), as well as the material she collected on György (1794–1885) and Károly Telepy (1828–1906). The bequest also features post cards, slides, and museum guidebooks.
  • Bibliography
    Telepy Katalin: Tájképek a Magyar Nemzeti Galériában. Budapest, 1973.
    Telepy Katalin: Iványi Grünwald Béla. Budapest, 1974.
    Telepy Katalin: Telepy Károly. Budapest, 1980.
  • Description by
    Terézia Kerny, Bálint Ugry, Benjámin Ék